While the nation's biggest carriers are bragging with their super fast wireless broadband networks and wide selections of hot, shiny smartphones, MetroPCS will be luring new customers and keeping existing ones with a neat feature that is about to go live later this year. The carrier just announced its partnership with the Mobile Content Venture in offering live broadcast television to its subscribers.

The service will be known as Dyle Mobile TV and will be accessible via a dedicated Dyle application. Not all devices will have access to it, however, as the content will be broadcast using the ATSC-Mobile standard. Samsung will be the manufacturer that will deliver the first Dyle-enabled smartphone, and even though we don't know much details about the actual device itself, the carrier is reassuring us that it will be a &#8220;premium&#8221; Android handset.

As far as content is concerned, the names of 15 major broadcast groups are being mentioned, including Pearl LLC, FOX, ION Television, Bahakel, Univision, Telemundo and NBC. Once the service goes live, it is expected to blanket 32 markets throughout the country covering about half of the nation's population. The first Samsung smartphones with Dyle will be launched later in 2012 and will be available in:

Atlanta, Georgia

Boston, Massachusetts

Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas

Detroit, Michigan

Jacksonville, Miami, Orlando, and Tampa, Florida

Las Vegas, Nevada

Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sacramento, California

New York City, New York

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

MetroPCS will demonstrate the Dyle Mobile TV service at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week, so in case if you are interested, make sure you keep track of our CES 2012 coverage.

Well, it's NOT false and not just rumors. And the facts were out there hours before you posted.

So you are totally wrong on this topic, even if you do work for Metro. For the past 8 months (since last summer) MetroPCS was definitely negotiating for a merger with Sprint, which was personally endorsed by Sprint CEO Dan Hesse -- and then rejected at the last minute by the Sprint board for unknown reasons. By "rejected by the Sprint board", that means MetroPCS had agreed to all the terms and was willing to be bought by Sprint.

I agree that MetroPCS does not need a merger with anyone, but it's definitely true they agreed to it and actively negotiated for a merger with Sprint for last several months.

Too many Sprint board members talked to the press, and the vote will be part of SEC public records. You can't deny it -- it is true. But the merger proposal failed.

To which I say, GOOD.

GOOD, now that's over with, MetroPCS get back to business, please.

I wonder if all this going on in the background has been the reason for delays on MetroPCS' part. Seems like a lot of their promises and business plan decisions have been on the slow track. I thought it was just incompetence on their part, but maybe upper management was distracted by Sprint merger discussions.

MetroPCS: "Like, we know we said all this stuff --

*we promised 5 or 6 LTE Androids in 2011, but only delivered 2;
* we promised a 2nd LTE Android by June/July 2011 but really delivered end of September and even then wanted to delay it until mid-October;
* we promised the LG Connect by Feb 9, and it's still in the wind...

-- but we don't really HAVE to deliver on our promises because Sprint is going to swoop in, pay all us off, and we won't have to do anything anymore except order umbrella drinks in the Bahamas. Wait, Sprint board rejected the merger? Ooops! "

Hope they can now get back to business.

Even on MetroPCS' official Facebook page, the MetroPCS PR flacks are denying the LG Connect is delayed even after I showed them proof from their own January 9, 2012 press release. They keep saying they never promised a date, but then keep deleting my link to THEIR own press release which promised a "launch by" date -- as if hiding the truth will fool people? They should apologize for the delay, not lie about. LIARS and WEASELS.

I just expected they would snap up Leap/Cricket before MetroPCS. Cricket is already practically a subsidiary with the slave contract nationwide 3G roaming deal they signed with Sprint a couple of years ago.

Actually Metro being bought by Sprint might not have been totally bad -- we would have true 3G nationwide roaming and still been a pre-paid budget carrier, like they made Virgin and Boost. Eventually Metro brand would have been rolled into Virgin I would bet. Sprint is CDMA and is going to LTE for 4G (after realizing WiMax is a bust).

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Sorry chazmatt this is false information not matter how its written, what article/blog/fb site, etc. The CEO even sent an email confirming this is false and its because metro is making a huge growth gain and business gain in the cell provider war. Other companies know that. The bogest dogs are Att and Verizon. Metros passed T-Mobile and creeping on sprint lol.

Like pg said. Don't believe everything you read online. (Hell I could say I'm buying out att and renaming it, overpricedshitsignal company. I design websites and can make it even look like a legit news article site and many people would believe it, sad but true. Haha..

And if you check stock all well known stock sites have each of the business' legit news posted under each company. Check etrade, fidelity.

Trust me. If this was legit it would have been as big as the att/T-Mobile deal. It would have made headline news... It didn't.

Not so sure this is good or bad news...although it's safe to leave well enough alone.

Sprint is obviously horrible, and guilty of thievery of its customers since the 90's.
But now with Google in the picture, could've turned out to be the best situation for us.
Assuming that Sprint would convert to lte... we'd get the newest & latest, which even in worst case-- (metro kept separate) the new models officially only released for the postpaid side-- they could be modded for prepaid use.

And of all the possible buyers, Sprint's likely the best / only chance to avoid data limiting / throttling.

Sorry chazmatt this is false information not matter how its written, what article/blog/fb site, etc. The CEO even sent an email confirming this is false and its because metro is making a huge growth gain and business gain in the cell provider war. Other companies know that. The bogest dogs are Att and Verizon. Metros passed T-Mobile and creeping on sprint lol.

Like pg said. Don't believe everything you read online. (Hell I could say I'm buying out att and renaming it, overpricedshitsignal company. I design websites and can make it even look like a legit news article site and many people would believe it, sad but true. Haha..

And if you check stock all well known stock sites have each of the business' legit news posted under each company. Check etrade, fidelity.

Trust me. If this was legit it would have been as big as the att/T-Mobile deal. It would have made headline news... It didn't.

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So you saying metro is the 4th largest wireless carrier in America?? Where can i read this

metro is pretty awesome except for costumer service and like all companies. they must have soimething that isnt so great. metro/ comcast cable = costumer service. att/ dish/ verizon= high prices =]. tmobile= service

Deal discussions began after Sprint was approached by representatives of MetroPCs who said the company was interested in being bought, people familiar with the matter said. Sprint's managers informed the board, and the two sides then explored how a deal might be done, one of the people said. Negotiations picked up after the late-December collapse of AT&T's $39 billion deal for T-Mobile USA, and due diligence was stepped up in the past week ahead of the board meeting, people familiar with the matter said.

For Sprint, the main reason to do a deal was the cost savings from combining the two carriers' networks, one person said. But early on there were doubts inside Sprint. MetroPCS is already using virtually all of its network capacity, so Sprint would essentially just be buying MetroPCS's customers, which like all pay-as-you-go customers tend to be fickle, another person said.

MetroPCS, meanwhile, saw Sprint as a good fit that would give its subscribers access to a nationwide next-generation network once it is built, a person familiar with the matter said. MetroPCS Chief Executive Roger Linquist, who co-founded the company, was personally involved in the talks, one person said. Mr. Linquist, who is 72 years old, remains interested in a deal if the right one can be found, the people said.

This guy supposedly works for Metro corporate but denied the whole Sprint merger attempt -- said it was a figment of the media's imagination, even though Sprint board members officially voted on it. (and rejected Metro)

He said Metro would never sell out, that Liar Linquist said so. (CEO Roger Linquist who never keeps any of his promises).

It's one thing to be afraid your job is going away if Metro is sold, but another to just say it's all a lie. I mean, it's easily proven facts, and even when I proved it he still would't believe it.